Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 20.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment of decisional capacity in psychiatric patients, including topics such as informed consent, coercive measures, mental health law, involuntary hospitalization, competency assessment, seclusion and restraint, patient autonomy, capacity evaluation, and ethical considerations.
- Informed Consent
- Psychiatric Treatment
- Coercive Measures
- Mental Health Law
- Involuntary Hospitalization
- Competency Assessment
- Seclusion and Restraint
- Patient Autonomy
- Capacity Evaluation
- Ethical Considerations
- Research works
- 22k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 4.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 20.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +21% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (916 and 503 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 916 works
- 2 United Kingdom 503 works
- 3 Germany 279 works
- 4 Australia 225 works
- 5 Canada 197 works
- 6 Spain 125 works
- 7 China 118 works
- 8 Italy 109 works
- 9 India 100 works
- 10 Netherlands 91 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of Toronto publishes the most Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research, followed by King's College London and Yale University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of TorontoCanada 19 works
- 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
- 3 Yale UniversityUnited States 16 works
- 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 14 works
- 5 Monash UniversityAustralia 12 works
- 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
- 7 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 12 works
- 8 The University of SydneyAustralia 12 works
- 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
- 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 11 works
Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints include Andrea C. Tricco and Wasifa Zarin.
- 1 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 18k citations
- 2 Wasifa Zarin Canada 4.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research done?
The largest centres of Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leeds, Dublin and New Haven.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- LeedsGB · 20.4 works6.7×
- DublinIE · 32.6 works5.5×
- New HavenUS · 22.0 works5.1×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints?
Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, Trinity College Dublin and University of Toronto score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King's College LondonUnited Kingdom | 63.7 | 25.9% | 6.8× | 19 | -21.0% |
| 2 | Trinity College DublinIreland | 61.1 | 22.2% | 7.6× | 9 | +228.0% |
| 3 | University of TorontoCanada | 55.7 | 23.3% | 3.6× | 19 | +46.6% |
| 4 | University of California, San FranciscoUnited States | 51.5 | 37.5% | 4.5× | 10 | +7.8% |
| 5 | Monash UniversityAustralia | 50.6 | 31.5% | 4.0× | 12 | -26.7% |
| 6 | Yale UniversityUnited States | 47.7 | 23.2% | 4.2× | 16 | +18.7% |
| 7 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 47.4 | 22.9% | 3.0× | 14 | +55.3% |
| 8 | University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom | 46.9 | 26.4% | 4.1× | 12 | +5.7% |
| 9 | The University of SydneyAustralia | 46.9 | 28.8% | 3.2× | 12 | +34.4% |
| 10 | University College LondonUnited Kingdom | 45.8 | 27.0% | 2.3× | 12 | +46.4% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 21% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.